#9 Very Little Salt in the Sea

10 Best Evidences From Science That Confirm a Young Earth

If the world’s oceans have been around for three billion years as evolutionists
believe, they should be filled with vastly more salt than the oceans contain
today.

After 3 billion years, we would expect to see 70x
more salt in the ocean than we see today.

Every year rivers, glaciers, underground seepage, and atmospheric and volcanic
dust dump large amounts of salts into the oceans (Figure 1). Consider
the influx of the predominant salt, sodium chloride (common table salt). Some
458 million tons of sodium mixes into ocean water each year,1 but only 122 million tons (27%) is removed by other natural
processes2 (Figure 1).

If seawater originally contained no sodium (salt) and the sodium accumulated
at today’s rates, then today’s ocean saltiness would be reached in only 42 million
years3—only
about 1/70 the three billion years evolutionists propose. But those assumptions
fail to take into account the likelihood that God created a saltwater ocean
for all the sea creatures He made on Day Five. Also, the year-long global Flood
cataclysm must have dumped an unprecedented amount of salt into the ocean through
erosion, sedimentation, and volcanism. So today’s ocean saltiness makes much
better sense within the biblical timescale of about six thousand years.4

Salt in the Sea

The Numbers Just Don’t Add Up

Figure 1: Every year, the continents, atmosphere,
and seafloor add 458 million tons of salt into the ocean, but only 122 million
tons (27%) is removed. At this rate, today’s saltiness would be reached in
42 million years. But God originally created a salty ocean for sea creatures,
and the Flood quickly added more salt.

Rescuing Devices

Those who believe in a three-billion-year-old ocean say that past sodium inputs
had to be less and outputs greater. However, even the most generous estimates
can only stretch the accumulation timeframe to 62 million years.5 Long-agers also argue that huge amounts of sodium
are removed during the formation of basalts at mid-ocean ridges,6 but this
ignores the fact that the sodium returns to the ocean as seafloor basalts move
away from the ridges.7

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